This Is Eternal LIFE

Christ Jesus said:

Now this is eternal LIFE: that they may know you, the only true God,

And Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. (John 17:3)

The apostle Paul said:

I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection

And the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, 

Becoming like him in his death,

And so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead. 

(Philippians 3:10-11)

The man who thinks he knows something 

Does not yet know as he ought to know.

But the man who loves God is known by God. (1 Corinthians 8:2-3)

To be known by God and knowing God are two sides of the same coin.

Therefore, loving God is essential to knowing Him;

Loving Him with all our heart, soul, mind and strength.

'This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel

(And the New Covenant, Church of God by implication)

After that time,' declares the Lord.

I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts.

I will be their God, and they will be my people.

No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother,

Saying, 'know the Lord,'

Because they will all know me from the least of them to the greatest,'

Declares the Lord. (Jeremiah 31:33-34)

But all of you have an anointing from the Holy One,

And all of you know the Truth. (1 John 2:20)

As for you, the anointing you received from him remains in you,

And you do not need anyone to teach you.

But as his anointing teaches you about all things

And as that anointing is real, not counterfeit--

Just as it has taught you, remain in him. (1 John 2:27)

The anointing from God teaches us to know Him.

Yet, we must still choose to remain in Him as we are taught by Him.

Eternal LIFE Is To Know God

That is a simple statement 

But the most profound statement there could be.

Many people know of God or some concept about God,

But only a few KNOW Him.

God is the self-existent One, the Creator of all that exists.

He spoke into existence all that exists 

From that which could not be seen, by His Word.

God is the Spirit who cannot be seen.

He speaks in a “still small voice” 

To the inner being of every living person.

Some have ears to hear this voice but most do not.

Those who respond to the “still small voice” of God speaking to them

Are on the pathway to knowing Him.

Responding to the “still small voice” of God is called faith;

Now faith is being sure of what we hope for 

And certain of what we do not see. (Hebrews 11:1)

And without faith it is impossible to please God,

Because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists

And that he rewards those who earnestly seek him. (Hebrews 11:6)

Those who come to know God will have faith 

And earnestly seek Him.

John the Baptist said of the Christ, Jesus:

I baptize you with water for repentance.

But after me will come One who is more powerful than I,

Whose sandals I am not fit to carry.

He will baptize you (immerse you) with the Holy Spirit and with fire.

(Matthew 3:11)

This baptism, this immersing, 

Is the the anointing that teaches us to know God.

God teaches us to know Him by His Holy Spirit,

Otherwise we could never know Him.

Christ Jesus said: ...you have one Teacher, the Christ.

(Matthew 23:10)

Our part is faith in responding to the “still small voice” of God,

And earnestly seeking Him.

If we are faithful to do this, 

He will baptize us in His Holy Spirit and with fire.

Then by the instruction of the Holy Spirit, His anointing, 

We can come to know Him.

By faith we repent of our sins 

And are washed clean in the blood of the Lamb.

By faith we confess with our mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord

And believe in our hearts that God raised Him from the dead.

Then, being baptized, immersed, in His Spirit,

We allow His Spirit to live in and through us;

This is KNOWING Him and Eternal LIFE;

Christ in us our hope of glory.

The Two Religions Of The World

The BEAST of Revelation 13 comes up out of the sea (out of the sea of humanity).

The Dragon gives the BEAST his power

And his throne and great authority,

He is the son of Satan, the dragon.

One of the heads of the BEAST seemed to have had a fatal wound,

But the fatal wound had been healed.

The whole world was astonished and followed the BEAST.

Men worshiped the dragon 

Because he had given authority to the BEAST,

And they also worshiped the BEAST and asked,

'Who is like the BEAST? Who can make war against him?' 

(Revelation 13:3-4, NIV)

The BEAST was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies

And to exercise his authority for forty-two months.

He opened his mouth to blaspheme God, and to slander his name

And his dwelling place and those who live in heaven.

He was given power to make war against the saints 

And to conquer them.

And he was given authority over every tribe, people, language 

And nation.

All inhabitants ow the earth will worship the BEAST-

All whose names have not been written in the Book Of LIFE

Belonging to the Lamb that was slain from the creation of the world.

He who has an ear, let him hear.

If anyone is to go into captivity, into captivity he will go.

If anyone is to be killed with the sword, 

With the sword he will be killed.

This calls for patient endurance 

And faithfulness on the part of the saints. (Revelation 13:5-10, NIV)

When the BEAST, the final Antichrist is revealed, it becomes obvious

That there are only two religions in the world,

The religion of Satan, the dragon and his BEAST,

And the religion of the Lamb, Christ Jesus, the Christ of God.

Up to that time it appeared 

That there were many religions in the world.

When the BEAST is “unmasked” 

All the religions of the world are “unmasked;”

They all worship the dragon, Satan and his BEAST the Antichrist;

Demonstrating that all religion, except faith in the Christ of God,

Are demonic and of the devil.

The modern world simply has different versions of demonic religion

Than the wood and stone idols of the ancient world.

Only those of one religion refuse the “mark” of the BEAST,

Those who have faith in the Christ of God,

Whose names are written in the Lamb's Book Of LIFE.

Those who claim to be atheists and agnostics 

Are also of the religion of Satan;

They, also, will worship Satan and his BEAST.

He who has an ear, let him hear.

The BEAST blasphemes only against one person, God;

He slanders the name of God, Lord Jesus Christ, and those of Heaven.

He does not blaspheme or slander anyone else,

As he has only one adversary, God and His Christ Jesus.

There are only two peoples in the world today 

And down through the ages,

Those who have put their faith, in God and His Christ Jesus;

Whose names are written in the Lamb's Book Of LIFE,

And those who are of the devil, Satan.

The “unmasking” of the BEAST,

And the willingness of the whole world to worship him, 

Makes this clear.

He who has an ear let him hear.

Who Do You Worship?

Each one of us is currently worshiping 

That which is closest to our hearts.

Worship is always from the heart. 

It is that which we give our time, money, attention and affection to. 

If we have responded to the still small voice of our God,

Then we will worship Him; Understanding that He alone is LIFE; 

All else is death.

When we embrace God, who is LIFE, we will worship Him. 

All else will be secondary: spouse, children, job, play and so on. 

God is the only person who unconditionally has our best interest at heart. 

Our spouse or a friend can also, 

But only if Christ lives in and through them; 

It still returns to the fact that only God has our best interest at heart; 

He is the only one who loves us unconditionally, 

Who accepts us unconditionally.

When we understand who God is; that He is our Father, our creator; 

The One who has given us this natural life we experience; 

That He is perfect and He offers us perfect love, we will worship Him. 

He asks us to be perfect as He is perfect;

That is, that we set all our affection on Him who is perfect, 

And who has perfect love for us. 

He created us and we are the apple of His eye. 

We are His treasured possession when we set our heart on Him.

He created us for Paradise, a perfect state of being, 

And if we love Him and worship Him, that is our destiny.

Adam and Eve fell from the grace of God 

Because the serpent convinced them 

That there was something good outside of God and His command. 

Every person has the same decision to make; 

Is there anything good outside of God and His commands?

The reality is, there is not.

Satan is a liar and the father of lies; he came to steal kill and destroy; 

He will do anything and say anything to send each of us to hell 

Where he is going. 

He will argue in our minds the same argument he made with Eve:

Did God really say, 'You must not eat from any tree in the garden'?

The woman said to the serpent,

'We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say ,

'You must not eat fruit from the tree 

That is in the middle of the garden,

And you must not touch it, or you will die.'

'You will not surely die,' the serpent said to the woman.

For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened,

And you will be like God, knowing good and evil.'

When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food

And pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom,

She took some and ate it.

She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.

Then the eyes of both of them were opened, 

And they realized they were naked;

So they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

(Genesis 3:1-9)

Without Christ We Are Naked

All of humanity is as Adam and Eve were, naked, before the Living God; 

Dead in sin. 

Faith in Christ Jesus alone takes that nakedness away; 

When we cloth ourselves with Christ, with His righteousness.

The apostle Paul said: 'Clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ...'

(Romans 13:14)

In Revelation 6:1, each saint is given a white robe, 

A robe of righteousness.

Worship Enables Us To Overcome This World

Having been saved by faith in Christ Jesus, 

We must overcome this world and the evil one who controls it, 

By the power of the Spirit of Christ in us. 

Christ Jesus said to a saved people, 

'To him who overcomes,

I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, 

Which is in the paradise of God. (Revelation 2:7)

We overcome this world by worshiping God in Spirit and in Truth.

Worship Keeps Us In Right Standing Before God

Worship is not for the benefit of God, it is for our benefit.

When from our heart, we worship Him who is perfect, who is LIFE,

We are proclaiming the Truth and the Truth sets us free 

And keeps us free.

A life of worship to God sets us free and keeps us free.

Christ Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the LIFE.

When we lift Him up in worship we come into agreement with Him.

Agreement with Christ Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the LIFE;

We have LIFE when He is our Way, our Truth and our LIFE.

Worship Guards Our Heart

When we are worshiping God who is LIFE,

We are conditioning our heart, guarding our heart, with the Truth;

We are coming into agreement with God; 

The Way, The Truth and the LIFE.

Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.  

(Proverbs 4:23)

Out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks. (Matthew 12:34)

'Where your treasure is there your heart will be also.' (Matthew 6:21)

The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure.

Who can understand it? (Jeremiah 17:9)

I the Lord search the heart and examine the mind,

To reward a man according to his conduct, 

According to what his deeds deserve. (Jeremiah 17:10)

Moses admonished the people of Israel:

Do not worship any other god,

For the Lord, whose name is Jealous is a jealous God. 

(Exodus 34:14)

Worship the Lord in the splendor of his holiness,

Tremble before him, all the earth. (Psalm 96:9)

Jesus declared, 'Believe me, woman, a time is coming

When you will worship the Father 

Neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

You Samaritans worship what you do not know; 

We worship what we do know,

For salvation is from the Jews.

Yet a time is coming and has now come

When the true worshipers will worship the Father in Spirit and Truth,

For they are the kind of worshipers the father seeks.

God is Spirit, and his worshipers must worship in Spirit and Truth.'

(John 4:21-24)

In the Millennium:

All the nations you have made will come and worship before you, O Lord;

They will bring glory to your name.

For you are great and do marvelous deeds; you alone are God. (Psalm 86:9-10)

Who Do You Bow Down To, Who Do You Worship?

Adam and Eve bowed down to the serpent

When they disobeyed God 

And ate of the fruit of the Tree of Good and Evil.

Mankind has been bowing down to the serpent ever since.

The only exceptions are those who put their faith in God 

And His Christ Jesus;

Those who bow down to Him and received His Spirit,

And allowed His Spirit to live in and through them.

Everyone else is worshiping the serpent, the devil, the evil one, Satan.

There Are Two Sons That are Worshiped

There is the Son of God and the son of Satan 

Or the Beast of Revelation.

The Son of God is Christ Jesus, God in flesh.

The son of Satan is the Beast, the Antichrist, Satan in flesh.

Each has his bride.

There Are Two Brides On The Earth Today

There have always been two brides on the earth.

The bride of the Beast, the Antichrist, is Babylon,

The world system, the tower of Babel,

The so called, new world order, that is as old as the Garden of Eden.

The Bride of Christ consists of those

Who have put their faith, hope and trust in Christ.

They have been crucified with Christ to this world, and no longer live

But it is Christ who lives in and through them.

The bride of the Beast consists of those deceived by the serpent, 

Who live for this world 

And allow the spirit of the Beast to live in and through them; 

They masquerade as angels of light 

As the serpent did in the Garden of Eden.

Soon The “Mask” Will Be Pulled Off

Soon the “mask” of the masquerader,

The Beast and his bride, will be pulled off

The whole world will be “unmasked” for what it is, 

Ungodly and Antichrist.

The only ones who will remain as they are will be the Bride of Christ;

The “Remnant” who belong to Christ Jesus and live for Him.

The whole world will be “unmasked”

And will worship the Beast and his “image”

And willingly receive his “mark.”

They will, in so doing, be indelibly identified with the Beast

And thereby sentence themselves along with the Beast, to hell.

Are You Indelibly Identified With Christ?

Where do you stand today? Is it clear who you worship?

Every person worships Christ or Satan there is no in between.

Are you willingly and irrevocably, indelibly identified with Christ Jesus.

Have you been crucified with Christ to this world;

Are you a stranger and alien in this world?

Where is your home? Is it this world or Heaven?

Does Christ Jesus live in and through you?

The answer to these questions will determine your eternal destiny.

I pray that you will be found in Christ when the devil springs his “trap;”

When the Antichrist, the Beast is revealed;

When the whole world will overtly worship the Beast 

And receive his “mark;”

Pray that you will be able to stand before the Son of Man 

At His appearing, without fault and with great joy.

Remember the day that the Antichrist is revealed 

Will like any other day; As in the day of Noah,

The worldly people had no idea what was going to happen;

It will like that when the Antichrist is revealed.

Today, we are rushing toward “that day” the day the “trap” is sprung.

Remember that the German people did not understand 

The nature of Hitler until it was too late. 

He was an Antichrist.

The final Antichrist will be similar, entirely possessed by Satan.

As the Jews were Hitler's “scapegoat,”

Christians will be the final Antichrist's “scapegoat.”

Satan hates Christ Jesus and His Christians,

Because they, with Christ in them,

Are the only ones who stand in the way of his total domination.

They are the only ones who will not worship him.

The Rise Of The New World Order

Today, the New World Order is rising on the increase of wickedness

That we see in the world and all around us, that the Lord warned about:

Because of the increase of wickedness, 

The love of most will grow cold,

But he who stands firm to the end will be saved. (Matthew 24:12)

Hearts will be weighed down with dissipation, drunkenness 

And anxieties of life,

And that day will close on them like a trap.

For it will come upon all those who live on the face of the whole earth.

Be always on the watch,

And pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen,

And that you may be able to stand before the Son of man.

(Luke 21:34-36)

Today, this wickedness will be ever increasing 

Until the “TRAP” is sprung.

The “TRAP” is the revealing of the Antichrist, the BEAST,

Who will have the “SOLUTION” for all the worlds problems.

All the worthless money of the world will be replaced with his “MARK.”

No one will be able to buy or sell without his “MARK.”

The BEAST will appear to have died and then come back to life again;

Mimicking the resurrection of Christ Jesus.

The “SET-UP” for the “SOLUTION”

Is the economic, social and political chaos we see in the world today,

That will be ever increasing.

This chaos and economic trauma 

Will allow Satan to reveal his Antichrist, the BEAST.

The world will be in such a state of panic and disarray

That they will easily accept the BEAST

Who will offer to save them from their predicament.

The BEAST will appear in the full demonic power of Satan;

To the degree that the whole world will worship him.

They say, “who can make war against the BEAST,”

Indicating he will be powerful militarily.

Before the BEAST appears on the scene,

The economic, social and political trauma the world is going through

Will produce a REBELLION/APOSTASY in the Church of God.

This REBELLION/APOSTASY

Will turn family members and saints against one another over Christ.

Three and one-half years, preceding the revealing of the BEAST,

Christ Jesus will make a covenant with His Bride, 

The “Woman” of Revelation 12;

The Bride of Christ will minister in the fullness of Christ.

She will draw the line, those for and against Christ Jesus,

Just as Christ Jesus did in the days of of His ministry on earth.

The line will be drawn in the Church of God;

The result will be the REBELLION/APOSTASY that is underway today.

At the apex of the REBELLION/APOSTASY,

The Bride of Christ, the “Woman” of Revelation 12, 

Will be taken into the desert

On the wings of an eagle and safety, from the Great Tribulation

That will take place for the next three and one-half years.

At the same time the Holy Spirit is removed.

The moment the BEAST begins the killing of Christians

And those who will not receive his “MARK,”

God Almighty begins The Great Tribulation

Which culminates in The Battle Of Armageddon 

And the return of Christ Jesus,

Who defeats the BEAST and his armies, all the armies of the world,

With the breath of His mouth and the brightness of His appearing.

At that time with few humans remain on earth,

Christ Jesus sets up His Millennial Reign on the earth;

The Kingdoms of this world become the Kingdom of God 

And His Christ Jesus for a thousand years.

The Bride of Christ, the faithful from all the ages,

Will reign with Christ Jesus for this period and for all eternity.

The Bride of Christ who ministers for the three and one-half years

Preceding the revealing of the BEAST

Are those who have been crucified with Christ to this world,

And no longer live, but Christ lives in and through them;

They love God with all their heart, soul, mind and strength.

Many lukewarm Christians will find themselves in The Great Tribulation;

Christians who have lost their first love for Christ Jesus.

They will come to their senses, understand what Scripture has foretold,

Refuse the “MARK” of the BEAST, and die for Christ Jesus.

Christ Jesus said that the Holy Spirit would tell us what is yet to come;

This is what the Spirit of God is speaking to me.

I exhort all who read this

To turn to Christ Jesus with all your heart, soul, mind and strength

He is the only place of safety in this world today.

Gather with those who have put all their faith, hope and trust 

In Christ Jesus;

Those who worship God in Spirit and in Truth;

This you will never regret.

I am not alone in blowing the trumped in Zion,

But know this, surely, the trumpet is being blown,

For all those who have ears to hear.

The Whole World Will Worship The Beast

All the inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast—

All whose names have not been written in the book of LIFE

Belonging to the Lamb that was slain from the creation of the world.

He who has an ear, let him hear,

If anyone is to go into captivity, into captivity he will go.

If anyone is to be killed with the sword he will be killed.

This calls for patient endurance and faithfulness 

On the part of the saints.

(Revelation 13:8-10)

For two thousand years the God of Creation, has presented to the world, His Christ, Jesus and most have refused Him. However, at the end of that time the whole world will worship the Beast, the son of Satan. This includes the rich and the poor, the scientists, the intellectuals, the religious; All who have not received Christ Jesus, and whose names are not written in the Lambs Book of LIFE. They all willingly worship Satan and his son, the Beast. Is this not stunning? They will not worship the Living God, but they will worship the devil.

The whole world will receive the “mark” of the Beast which condemns them to hell. They do this in the face of an angel who tells them to worship God alone; And another angel who tells them that if they receive the “mark” they will go to hell. This is a testament of the effectiveness of the deception of Satan, the evil one, the serpent, the devil.

Today, as we witness the Birth Pains that Christ Jesus foretold; We witness a world that is oblivious to Satan's Set-Up. Through the deception of Satan, the nations of the world, acting like “god” have spent themselves into bankruptcy. They have become morally bankrupt as well. They call good evil and evil good. They are slaves to their sexual lust, to their material desires and their ambitions; They are slaves to sin, and to Satan who deceives them.

They are deceived just as effectively as Adam and Eve were in the Garden; As effectively as the world of Noah's day; as Sodom and Gomorrah; As Rome; As Germany in the days of Hitler. This time, as in Noah's day, it includes the whole world, every nation. Yet, everyone who calls on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, from their heart, in true repentance, will be saved.

Hallelujah!

We Are In The Season Of The Last Generation

The Birth Pains that Christ Jesus spoke about are currently under way, including natural and unnatural disasters. They will be ever increasing. Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold. Social, economic and political turmoil will be ever increasing, causing people's hearts to be weighed down with dissipation, drunkenness and the anxieties of life. An apostasy within the church of God is currently under way. This will all reach a climax with Satan revealing his Antichrist and requiring that everyone worship him; That every one receive his "mark" in order to buy or sell; The new currency of the New World Order, the New Tower of Babel.

It is critical at this time that those who have a heart for God are aware of what God is doing and speaking today. God is opening up His Word like never before in preparation for The Time Of The END. I exhort you to open up your heart and your eyes to see what He is doing and your ears to hear what God is speaking at this time. My prayer is that we will be able to stand before the Son of Man at His appearing, without fault and with great joy.